Private Madhouses in England, 1640-1815 : Commercialised Care for the Insane Hardback
by Leonard Smith
Part of the Mental Health in Historical Perspective series
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This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon.
In 1815, about seventy per cent of people institutionalised because of insanity were being kept in private ‘madhouses’.
The opening four chapters detail the emergence of these madhouses and demonstrate their increasing presence in London and across the country during the long eighteenth century.
Subsequent chapters deal with specific aspects in greater depth - the insane patients themselves, their characteristics, and the circumstances surrounding admissions; the madhouse proprietors, their business activities, personal attributes and professional qualifications or lack of them; changing treatment practices and the principles that informed them.
Finally, the book explores conditions within the madhouses, which ranged from the relatively enlightened to theseriously defective, and reveals the experiences, concerns and protests of their many critics.
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- Pages:323 pages, 5 Illustrations, color; 12 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 323 p. 17 illus., 5 illus
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:19/06/2020
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- ISBN:9783030416393
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:323 pages, 5 Illustrations, color; 12 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 323 p. 17 illus., 5 illus
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:19/06/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030416393
